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language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using … data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that migrants choose smaller networks as their English language proficiency …
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changes to the network structure on the unraveling of the market towards early hiring. Moreover, we show that an efficient …
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We study a structural model of R&D alliance networks in which firms jointly form R&D collaborations to lower their production costs while competing on the product market. We derive the Nash equilibrium of this game, provide a welfare analysis and determine the optimal R&D subsidy program that...
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network structure. We provide a general characterization of both equilibrium networks and endogenous production choices, and … compare it to the efficient network architecture. We also allow for firms to differ in their technological characteristics …, investigate how this affects their propensity to collaborate and study the resulting network architecture. …
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In this paper, I study the impact of immigrant concentration in primary schools on educational outcomes of native and migrant students in a major Austrian city between 1980-2001. The outcome measures of interest are track attendance after primary education and grade repetition. Using variation...
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We study the short- and long-term economic and social integration of European war refugees. The population under study left former Yugoslavia for Sweden in the early 1990s. In the first years, there were significant human capital investments in language training, adult education, and active...
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We study the economic and social integration of refugee children. The analysis follows war refugees arriving from former Yugoslavia to Sweden in the early 1990s for up to 25 years. We find strong educational and economic integration, although differing by age at migration and gender. By...
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Some immigrants try to keep their ethnicity hidden while others become ever deeply more mired in their home culture. We argue that among immigrants this struggle manifests itself in the ethnic goods they choose to consume. Different types of ethnic goods have vastly different effects on...
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Some immigrants try to keep their ethnicity hidden while others become ever deeply more mired in their home culture. We argue that among immigrants this struggle manifests itself in the ethnic goods they choose to consume. Different types of ethnic goods have vastly different effects on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011460732
In this paper we study the differences between natives and migrants in the appropriate use of emergency care. We focus …. Consistently with the literature, our findings show that migrants' children are characterized both by a higher probability to use … driving these results. We find that linguistic and cultural distance between natives and migrants explain the higher use of …
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